If a cowboy movie can said to be an entertaining piece of fluff, then I nominate the quirky, amusing…
“Ben [Glenn Ford, age 50-ish] and Howdy [Henry Fonda, age 60] are a couple of aging cowboys who bust broncos out of Sedona for Jim Ed Love, a slick operator if ever there was one. Sisters, Meg and Agatha, have their eyes on Ben and Howdy, but the boys aren’t ready to settle down yet. They spend the winter in the high country corralling more than 100 stray cattle at $7 a head for Jim Ed. Most years, they blow their winter pay in one spring night at a Sedona bar, but this year, Ben and Howdy have a plan: to take an ornery roan that Ben has been unable to break and bet their bankroll that no cowboy at the Sedona rodeo can stay on the horse.”
It’s the source of the line “Whatever suits you just tickles me plum to death.”
I absolutely love this movie, and I thought it was relatively well known. One of the few movies that both the left and right claimed supported their sides.
Well in that spirit, I name Destry Rides Again. I admit it was pretty well known in its day and so may not qualify as little known. But it is an entertaining meta-movie which makes light of a whole genre.
The thread on your favorite representation of the devil reminded me of Hal Hartley’s Book of Life, Jesus returns to fulfill Revelations on the eve of the millennium, but has doubts about judging humankind. It’s only 60 min and available on youtube.
Abigail Breslin contracts the zombie disease and slowly turns into a walker. Arnold Schwarzenegger is her Dad coming to grips with her eventual passing. Arnold took no payment to be in this movie and hired an acting coach and it pays off big-time – he’s excellent! If you’re tired of zombies, substitute whichever terminal disease you care to.
What I loved about it was the Italian Mob having a black market in tomatoes, because – you know – all that Tomato sauce for pizzas and spaghetti sauce. Non-Italians were making do with abominations like Boysenberry pizza.
Somewhere in the desert, a tire named Robert suddenly comes to life. After standing upright, he discovers he has psychokinesis and tests his newfound powers by making animals and inanimate objects explode.
Wasn’t little known in the past but maybe passed by with younger viewers now days. Its use if nudity and sexual activity between non-adults got plenty of notice in its day. Now it’s mild compared to an episode of Euphoria.
